I have a div with an img tag. This img tag should display the visitors country flag. However, im getting no progress in trying to find a solution.
A first thought was maybe those things are possible via server side and php, but then I again there must be a simple jquery method.
I am not asking anyone to code a solution! I just want to know what methods are there for simple tasks like mine? I also tried to look for libraries that do that without the so called "JSON".
You can do that using the geolocation API. But the user has to allow the location detection for it to work.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/Using_geolocation
HTML5 provides a Geolocation API, maybe you can try to use that.
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/map-geolocation?hl=de
Google (and maybe other too) offers a free API to transform the location to for example the country.
Unfortunately this is a bit of a link only answer, but you have a similar question here:
The answer itself refers to this tutoprial:
http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/07/getting-country-city-name-from-ip-address-in-php.html
This answer also looks very promising:
How can I get user's country flag on my site
According to this link you can also use $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] to get the language, rather than using a third part service.
